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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sorrowful
    adj 1: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially
           that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful
           widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair";
           "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is
           sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13 [ant: joyful]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sorrowful \Sor"row*ful\, a. [OE. sorweful, AS. sorgful.]
   1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected;
      distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." --Chaucer.
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            My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.
                                                  --Matt. xxvi.
                                                  38.
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   2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable;
      grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.
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   Syn: Sad; mournful; dismal; disconsolate; drear; dreary;
        grievous; lamentable; doleful; distressing.
        [1913 Webster] -- Sor"row*ful*ly, adv. --
        Sor"row*ful*ness, n.
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Thesaurus Results for Sorrowful:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Jeremianic, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, bitter, bleak, blue, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, complaining, crestfallen, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, downcast, dreary, dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, gloomy, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, hapless, heartsick, howling, in grief, in the doldrums, inconsolable, joyless, lamentable, lamentive, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, moanful, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, peevish, petulant, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, puling, querulous, regretful, regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrow-laden, sorrow-stricken, sorrowed, sorrowing, sorry, tearful, touching, troublous, ululant, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, woebegone, woeful, wretched
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